Aqua America Inc., a Bryn Mawr, Pa. headquarted water utility company, has announced it will buy Peoples Gas and its subsidiaries in a $4.3 billion all-cash deal. According to a press release, the resulting company will serve one million water utility customer...

Pennsylvania House Speaker Mike Turzai and Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto traded insults Thursday over the city’s handling of chronic problems at the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. Turzai, R-Marshall, started it a day earlier by outlining PWSA’s many problems and...

Baltimore is poised to become the first major U.S. city to prohibit privatization of its water system and the first to do so by amending its city charter. Aly Shaw of the Pittsburgh Our Water Campaign says lead levels in her city are finally going down after...

Pittsburgh City Council approved a revenue stream for the Housing Opportunity Fund in December 2017, and last month approved members of an advisory board. They met for the first time on Friday. Those 17 people are charged with figuring out how to allocate the fund’s...

President and CEO of Peoples Natural Gas Morgan O’Brien has a grand plan for the Pittsburgh Water and Sewer Authority. And, in spite of skepticism from some officials and recent opposition from local activists, he wants you to trust him. O’Brien revealed his plans...

More than 100 people gathered outside the Immigration and Customs Enforcement office on the South Side Monday afternoon to protest the Trump administration’s “zero tolerance” immigration policy. The rally, which led to a temporary closure of the Hot Metal Bridge, was...